Persecution of the British Church under the Emperor, Diocletian.
Martyrdom of St Alban, A.D. 304.

.

St. Columba died at Iona, 597

Bishops of York, London, and Caerleon-on-Usk, at the council
of Arles, A.D. 314.

.

Eborius

314

Restitutus

314

British Bishops present at the Councils of Sardica, 347, and
of Ariminum, 360.

St. Patrick

445

St Ninian settled at Whithorn, in Wigtonshire, cir. A.D. 400

(Consecrated in Gaul)

.

St. German and Gallican Bishops combated Pelagianism in Britain
429 and 447. "Alleluia" Victory, 430.

St. Benen

455

St. Jarlath

465

Cormac

482

St. Mungo, driven from Glasgow, founded St. Asaph, cir. 550

Dubtach I.

497

Aihill I.

513

Christianity driven into Wales, Devonshire and Cornwall, by
the heathen Angles and Saxons, in the Sixth Century.

Aihill II.

526

Dubtach II.

536

BISHOPS

David

548

Luidhard

572

See Vacant

See Vacant

BISHOPS OF
LINDISFARNE.

St. David

----

Feidlimid

551

Cynog

----

Cairlan I

578

St. Augustine

597

Teilo

----

Eschaid

588

(Consecrated in Gaul.)

Ceneu

----

Senach

598

Laurentius

605

Morfael

----

Mellitus

619

Mellitus

604

Haerwnan

----

Mac Laisre

610

Justus

624

Paulinus

627

Fled into Kent, 616. See vacant 38 years

St. AidanConsecrated at Iona

634

Elwaed

----

Thomian

623

Honorius

627-53

Fled into Kent, 633. -See vacant 30 years

Gwrnwen

----

Deusdedit

655-64

Finan

651

Llunwerth

----

ARCHBISHOPS

Colman

662

Gwrgwyst

----

St. Chad

664

Cedd

654

Tuda

664

Gwgan

----

Segene

661

(Synod of Hertford.- The Churches of the Heptarchy united
into one Church of Enlgand, A.D. 673)

Theodore

668-90

St. Wilfrid (retired)

669

Wine

666

Eata

678

Clydawg

----

Bosa (retired)

678

St. Erconwald

675

St. Cuthbert

685

Eineon

----

St. Wilfrid (restored)

686

Waldhere

693

Eadberet

688

Elford

----

Flann Febla

688

Berhtwald

693

Bosa (restored)

691

Ingwald

706

Eatferth

698

Ethelman

----

Suibne

715

.

St John of Beverley

705

Eggwulf

745

Elanc

----

Congusa

730

Tatwin

731

Wilfrid II

718

Sighaeh

772

Aedilnald

724

Maelsgwyd

----

Celepeter

750

Nothelm

734

ARCHBISHOPS

Eadbert

774

Sadwrnfen

----

Fredachry

758

Cuthbert

740-58

Egbert

732

Eadgar

789

Cynewulf

740

Cadell

----

Foendelach

768

Bregwin

759-62

Coenwalch

791

Sulhaithnay

----

Dubdalethy I.

778

Jaenberht

763

Ethelbert

766

Eadbald

794

Higbald

780

Novis

----

Assiat

793

Eanbald I

782

Heathoberht

794

Idwal

----

Cudiniscus

794

Ethelhard

790

Eanbald II

796

Osmund

802

Egbert

802

Asser

----

Conmac

798

Wulfred

803

Arthwael

----

Torbach

807

Samson

----

Nuad

808

Wulfsige

812

Ethelnoth

811

Heathured

819

Ruelin

----

Flangus

812

Egbert

827

Ceolberht

824

Egfrid

828

Rhydderch

----

Artrigius

822

Fleogild

829

Eugene I.

833

Ethelwulf

839

Ceolnoth

830

Wigmund

837

Eanbert

846

Farannan (resigned)

834

(Ethelbald

858

Eardulph

854

Dermod

848

(Ethelbert

858

Wulfhere

854

Deorwulf

860

Elwin

----

Factna

852

Ethelred

866

Ethelred

870-89

Swithwulf

--

BISHOPS OF CHESTER-LE- STREET

Ainmire

872

Alfred

871

Morbiw

----

Cathasach I.

875

Plegemund

891

Maelcol

883

Ethelbald

895

Heahstan

898

Llunwerth

----

Maelbrigid

885

Edward the Elder

901

Athelm

923-25

Wulfsige

898

Cutheard

900

Althelstan

915

Wulfhelm

928

Redewald

928

Tilred

915

Joseph

927

Edmund

940

Odo

941

Wulstan I

931

Theodred

926

Wigred

928

Eneuris

944

Maelpatrick

936

Edred

946

Ughtred

944

Hubert

----

Cathasach II.

937

Edwy

955

Aelsine

958

Oskytel

956

Byrrthelm

953

Sexhelme

947

Ivor

----

Edgar

958

St Dunstan

959

Ethelwold (resigned)

972

St. Dunstan

959

Aldred

947

Morgeneu

----

Muirdach

957

Oswald

972

Aelfstan

961

Elfsig

968

Nathan

960

Dubdalethy II.

966

Edward the Martyr

975

Ethelgar

988-89

Jeuan

----

Ethelred II

979

Sigeric

990-94

Aldwine

990

Arwystl

----

Elfric

995-05

Adulph

993

Wulfstan

996

BISHOPS OF DURHAM

Murechan (resigned)

998

Edmund Ironside

1016

Alphege

1006-12

Wulstan II

1002

Aelfun

1004

Morgenue

----

Maelmury

1001

Canute

1017

Leovingus

1013

Aelfwig

1014

Edmund

1021

Amalgaid

1021

Ethelmoth

1020

Alfric Puttoc

1023

Ervin

1023

Harold I

1035

Aelfward

1035

Edred

1041

Trahaearn

1039

Hardicanute

1040

Eadsige

1038-50

Egelric

1042

Edward the Confessor

1042

Robert of Jumieges

1051

Kinsius

1051

Robert

1044

Egelwin

1056

Joseph

1055

Dubdalethy III.

1050

Stigand

1052

Aldred

1060

William

1051

Bleiddud

1061

Cumasach

1065

Harold II

1066

Maelisa

1065

William I

1066

Lanfranc

1070-89

Thomas I

1070

Hugh de Orval

1075

Walchere

1071

Sulien

1071

Maurice

1085

William

1080

Abraham

1076

William II

1087

Anselm

1093-09

Rhyddmarch

1088

Donald

1092

Henry I

1100

Ralph d'Escures

1114-22

Gerard

1100

Richard de Beaumes

1108

Ralph Flambard

1099

Griffry

1096

Celsus

1106

William de Corbeuil

1123-36

Thomas II

1109

Gilbert

1128

Bernard

1115

Maurice

1129

Thurstan

1114

Geoffrey Rufus

1133

St. Malachy (resigned)

Stephen

1135

Theobald

1139-61

St. William

1144

Robert de Sigillo

1141

Will St. Barbara

1143

Gelasius

1137

Henry Murdac

1147

Richard de Beaumes

1152

David Fitzgerald

1147

Cornelius

1174

Henry II

1154

Thomas Becket

1162-70

St. William (restored)

1153

Hugh Pudsey

1153

Gilbert

1175

Richard

1174-84

Roger Pont l'Eveque

1154

Gilbert Foliot

1163

Maelisa II.

1184

Baldwin

1185-90

Peter de Leia

1176

Amlave

1184

Richard I

1189

Reginald Fitz jocelin

1191

Geoffrey Plantagenet

1191

Richard de Ely

1189

Philip of Poitiers

1197

Geoffrey de Henelawe

1203

Thomas O'Connor

1185

John

1199

Hubert Walter

1193-05

Wm. of St. Mary's Church

1199

Jowerth

1215

Eugene II.

1206

Henry III

1216

Stephen Langton

1207-28

Walter de Gray

1216

Eustace Fauconberg

1221

Luke Nettervil

1220

Richard Grant

1229-31

Roger le Noir

1229

Richard de Marisco

1217

Donat

1227

Edmund Rich

1233

Fulk Basset

1242

Richard Poor

1228

Anselm le Gros

1230

Albert of Cologne

1240

Boniface of Savoy

1245-70

Sewall de Bovill

1256

Nicholas Farnham

1241

Thomas the Welshman

1248

Reiner

1247

(First Parliament met, 1265)

Godfrey Ludham

1258

Henry Wingham

1259

Walter Kirkham

1249

Richard de Carew

1256

Abraham O'Connellan

1257

Walter Giffard

1266

Henry Sandwich

1263

Robert Stichell

1260

Patrick O'Scanlan

1261

Edward I

1272

Robert Kilwardby

1273-78

William Wickwaine

1279

John Chishull

1274

Robert Insula

1274

Nicholas MacMolissa

1272

John Peckham

1279-92

John Romanus

1286

Richard Gravesend

1280

Anthony Beck

1283

Thomas Beck

1280

Robert Winchelsey

1293

Henry Newark

1296

David Martyn

1296

Thomas Corbidge

1300

Ralph Baldock

1306

Edward II

1307

William Greenfield

1304

Gilbert Segrave

1313

John Taafe

1305

Walter Reynolds

1313

William Melton

1316

Richard Newport

1317

Richard Kellow

1311

Walter de Jorse (resigned)

1306

Edward III

1327

Simon Meopham

1328

Stephen Gravesend

1319

Louis Beaumont

1318

Henry de Gower

1328

Roland de Jorse (resigned)

1311

John Stratford

1333

Richard Bentworth

1338

Robert Greystanes

1333

Stephen Segrave

1322

Thomas Bradwardine

1349

William la Zouche

1340

Ralph Stratford

1340

Richard Bury

1333

David O'Hiraghty

1334

Simon Islip

1349

John Thoresby

1353

Michael Northburgh

1354

Thomas Hatfield

1345

John Thoresby

1347

Richard Fitz-Ralph

1347

Simon Langham

1366

Simon Sudbury

1362

Reginald Brian

1350

William Whittlesey

1368-74

Thomas Fastolfe

1353

Simon Sudbury

1375

Alexander Neville

1374

William Courtenay

1375

Adam Houghton

1361

Milo Sweetman

1361

Richard II

1377

William Courtenay

1381

Thomas Arundel

1388

Robert Braybroke

1381

John Fordham

1382

John Gilbert

1389

John Colton

1382

Thomas Arundel

1396

Robert Waldby

1397

Roger Walden

1405

Walter Skirlawe

1388

Guy Mone

1397

Henry IV

1399

Roger Walden

1398

Richard Scrope

1398

Nicholas Bubwith

1406

Henry Chicheley

1408

Nicholas Fleming

1404

Thomas Arundel

1399

Henry Bowet

1407

Richard Clifford

1407

Thomas Langley

1406

John Catterick

1414

Henry V

1413

Henry Chicheley

1414

John Kempe

1422

Stephen Patrington

1415

John Swayn (resigned)

1417

Henry VI

1422

John Kempe

1426

William Grey

1426

Benedict Nicholls

1418

Robert Fitz-Hugh

1431

Thomas Redburne

1433

John Stafford

1443

Robert Gilbert

1436

Robert Neville

1438

William Lyndwood

1442

John Prene

1439

John Kempe

1452

William Booth

1452

Thomas Kempe

1450

John Langton

1447

John Mey

1444

Thomas Bouchler

1454

Lawrence Booth

1457

John Delabere

1447

John Bole

1457

Edward IV

1461

George Neville

1465

Robert Tully

1460

Lawrence Booth

1476

William Dudley

1476

Richard Martin

1482

John Foxall

1475

Edward V

1483

Thomas Rotherham

1480

Richard Hill

1489

Thomas Langton

1483

Edmund Connesburgh

1477

Richard III

1483

John Sherwood

1485

Hugh Parry

1485

Octavian de Palatio

1480

Henry VII

1485

Thomas Savage

1496

Richard Fox

1494

John Morgan

1496

John Morton

1486

Thomas Savage

1501

William Warham

1502

William Sever

1502

Henry Dene

1501

William Barons

1504

Robert Sherborne

1505

William Warham

1503-32

Christopher Bainbrigg

1508

Richard Fitz-James

1506

Christopher Bainbrigg

1507

Thomas Wolsey

1514

Thomas Ruthall

1509

Edward Vaughan

1509

John Kite

1513

Cuthbert Tunstall

1522

Thomas Wolsey

1523

Richard Rawlings

1523

George Cromer

1522

Henry VIII

1509

Edward Lee

1531

John Stokesley

1530

Cuthbert Tunstall

1530

William Barlow

1536

Robert Holgate

1545

Edmund Bonner

1540

Robert Ferrar

1548

George Dowdall

1543

Thomas Cranmer

1533

Nicholas Ridley

1550

Hugh Goodacre

1552

Nicholas Heath

1555

Edmund Bonner (rest'd)

1553

Henry Morgan

1554

Edward VI

1547

Thomas Young

1561

Edmund Grindal

1559

James Pilkington

1561

Thomas Young

1560

Adam Loftus

1562

Mary

1553

Reginald Pole

1556-58

Edmund Grindal

1570

Edwin Sandys

1570

Richard Davies

1561

Thomas Lancaster

1568

Elizabeth

1558

Matthew Parker

1559

Edwin Sandys

1577

John Aylmer

1577

Richard Barnes

1577

Marmaduke Middleton

1582

John Long

1584

John Piers

1589

Richard Fletcher

1595

Matthew Hutton

1589

Anthony Rudd

1594

John Garvey

1589

Edmund Grindal

1575

Matthew Hutton

1595

Richard Bancroft

1597

Tobias Matthew

1595

Henry Ussher

1595

John Whitgift

1583

Richard Vaughan

1604

Tobias Matthew

1606

Thomas Ravis

1607

William James

1606

James I

1603

Richard Bancroft

1604-10

George Abbot

1610

Christopher Hampton

1613

George Monteigne

1628

John King

1611

Richard Neile

1617

Richard Milbourne

1615

George Abbot

1611

Samuel Haranet

1628

George Monteigne

1621

George Monteigne

1627

William Laud

1621

James Ussher

1624

Richard Neile

1632

William Laud

1628

John Howson

1628

Theophilus Field

1627

Charles I

1625

William Laud

1633

John Williams

1641

William Juxon

1633

Thomas Morton

1632

Roger Mainwaring

1636

Beheaded 1645, See vacant.

Died 1650, See vacant.

Died 1659, see vacant

Died 1653, see vacant

.

(Interregnum, 1649)

[The bishops driven from their dioceses and the clergy ejected
from their benefices. Abolition of the House of Lords, Civil
War. Great sufferings of the clergy. Oppression of the faithful
laity. Rivalries of the Presbyterians and Indepependents. The
use of Prayer Book and the administration of the Sacraments made
a penal offence. Religious Anarchy. Suppression of personal liberty.
Abolition of the House of Commons. Military dictatorship of Cromwell.
Restoration of the Monarchy and Revival of the Church.)

.

Charles II

1660

William Juxon

1660

Accepted Frewen

1660

Gilbert Sheldon

1660

John Cosin

1660

William Lucy

1660

John Bramhall

1660

Gilbert Sheldon

1663

Richard Sterne

1664

Humphrey Henchman

1663

James Margetson

1663

William Sancroft

1677/8

Henry Compton

1675

Nathaniel, Lord Crewe

1674

William Thomas

1678

Michael Boyle

1678

John Dolben

1683

Lawrence Womack

1683

James II

1685

Thomas Lamplugh

1688

John Lloyd

1686

.

[Attempt of the King to subject the country to Papal domination.
Protest and Imprisonment of "The Seven Bishops," viz:-
Archbishop Sancroft of Canterbury, and Bisops Lloyd of St. Asaph,
Ken of Bath and Wells, Trelawney of Bristol, Lake of Chichester,
Turner of Ely, and White of Peterborough, Their notable trial
at Westminster and triumphant acquittal. The Revolution.)

.

William III

1689

John Tillotson

1691-94

John Sharpe

1691

.

.

.

.

Thomas Watson

1687

.

.

Anne

1702

Thomas Tenison

1695

George Bull

1705

Narcissus Marsh

1702

Philip Bisse

1710

George I

1714

William Wake

1715/6

Sir William Dawes

1714

John Robinson

1714

Adam Ottley

1713

Thomas Lindsay

1713

Lancelot Blackburne

1724

Edmund Gibson

1723

William Talbot

1722

Richard Smallbrooke

1724

Hugh Boulter

1724

George II

1727

Edward Chandler

1730

Elias Sydall

1731

John Potter

1737

Nicholas Clagget

1732

Thomas Herring

1743

*Edward Willes

1743

John Hoadley

1742

Thomas Herring

1747

Matthew Hutton

1747

Thomas Sherlock

1748

Joseph Butler

1750

Hon. Richard Trevor

1744

George Stone

1746

Matthew Hutton

1757

John Gilbert

1757

Richard Trevor

1752

Anthony Ellis

1752

George III

1760

Thomas Secker

1758

Hon. Robt. Hay Drummond

1761

Thomas Hayter

1761

Samuel Squire

1761

Frederick Cornwallis

1768

Richard Osbaldeston

1762

Robert Lowth

1766

Richard Robinson

1765

Richard Terrick

1764

John Egerton

1771

Charles Moss

1766

William Markham

1777

Robert Lowth

1777

Hon. James Yorke

1774

John Warren

1779

John Moore

1783

Beilby Porteous

1787

Thomas Thurlow

1787

Edward Smallwell

1783

Hon. Shute Barrington

1791

Samuel Horsley

1788

Hon. William Stuart

1794

William Newcome

1795

Charles Manners Sutton

1805

John Randolph

1809

Lord George Murray

1800

William Stewart

1800

Edw. V. Vernon Harcourt

1808

William Howley

1813

Thomas Burgess

1803

George IV

1820

William Howley

1828

Charles James Blomfield

1828

William Van Mildert

1826

John Banks Jenkinson

1825

Lord John G. Beresford

1822

William IV

1830

Edward Maltby

1836

Victoria

1837

John Bird Sumner

1848

Thomas Musgrave

1847

Chas. Thos. Longley

1856

Connop Thirlwall

1840

Chas. Thos. Langley

1862

Chas. Thos. Longley

1860

Arch. Campbell Tait

1856

Hon. H. Montagu Villiers

1860

Marcus G. Beresford

1862

Foundation of nine additional Bishoprics in England. Great
increase of the Episcopate in the Colonies. Rivival of the Convocations
of the Clergy of Canterbury and York. Revision of the Authorised
Version of the Bible. Establishment of Diocesan Conferences of
Clergy and Laity. Meeting of the Pan-Anglican Conference of Bishops
at Lambeth. Establishment of Houses of Laymen for both English
Provinces. Great efforts of the Church for the Education of the
People. Great increase in the Foreign Missionary work of the
Church.

Arch. Campbell Tait

1868-82

William Thomson

1863

John Jackson

1869

Charles Baring

1861

Wm. Basil T. Jones

1874

Robert Knox

1886

Edward White Benson

1883

William Connor Magee

1891

Frederick Temple

1885

Josh. Barber Lightfoot

1879

Disestablished Bishops

Robt. Samuel Gregg

1894

Edward VII

1901

Frederick Temple

1896-02

William D. Maclagan

1891

Mandell Creighton

1896

Brooke Foss Westcott

1890

John Owen

1897

William Alexander

1896

George V

1910

Randall Davidson

1903

Cosmo Gordon Lang

1908

A. F.Winnington-Ingram

1901

Handley C.G. Moule

1901

David Prosser

1926

John Crozier

1911

Cosmo Gordon Lang

1928

William Temple

1929

Herbert Hensley

1920

Charles D'Arcy

1920

Edward VIII

1936

William Temple

1942-44

Geoffrey Francis Fisher

1939

Godfrey Day

1938

George VI

1936

Geoffrey Francis Fisher

1945

Cyril Forster Garbett

1942

John W.C. Wand

1945

Alwyn Terrell Petre

1939

William Havard

1950

John Gregg

1939

Elizabeth II

1952

Arthur Michael Ramsey

1961

Arthur Michael Ramsey

1956

Henry M. Campbell

1956

Arthur Michael Ramsey

1952

John Richards

1956

James McCann

1959

Fredk. Donald Coggan

1974

Fredk. Donald Coggan

1961

Robert Wright Stopford

1961

Maurice Henry Harland

1956

Eric Roberts

1971

George Simms

1969

Robert Runcie

1980

Stuart Blanche

1974

Gerald Alexander Ellison

1973

Ian Thomas Ramsey

1966

George Noakes

1982

John Armstrong

1980

George Carey

1991

John Stapylton Habgood

1983

Graham Leonard

1981

John S. Habgood

1973

Ivor Rees

1991

Robin Eames

1986

Rowan Williams

2002

David Hope

1995

David Hope

1991

David Jenkins

1984

Huw Jones

1996

Alan Harper

2007

Justin Welby

2013

John Sentamu

2005

Richard Chartres

1995

Michael Turnbull

1994

Carl Cooper

2002

Richard Clarke

2012

Tom Wright

2003

Wyn Evans

2008

Justin Welby

2011

Paul Butler

2014

Whilst every attempt has been made to ensure that the data in this table is accurate, I offer no guarantees that this is so.
Original Table generated by Colin Hinson who added some corrections and
additions by Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake.